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The Mummy [Blu-ray] [1999]

Starring: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Kevin J. O'Connor
Director: Stephen Sommers
Format: AC-3 Colour Dolby DTS Surround Sound Dubbed Subtitled Widescreen
Released: 22 Jul 2008
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INDIANA JONES OF THE FUTURE - By: Nevs, 29 Sep 2007
Both films are awash with excellent special effects.

The mix of humour & swashbuckling action keep you firmly in your seat. The mummy is fantastic.
best adventure since Indiana Jones - By: Paul Levy, 16 Aug 2005
If pure entertainment is your thing then you don't need to look any further than the mummy. It's a film that sets out quite simply to entertain, & succeds.
Their are several aspects of this film that i enjoyed. The introduction is tremendous, as a narrator sets up the film, telling the viewer the story of Imhotep & how he came to be mummified. Throughout the film there are some spectacular visual images & some of the most memorable occur in this opening section of the film.
As the characters are introduced the pace & the mood of the film change greatly. We are introduced to three more important characters. Rick 'o Conell, an Indiana Jones style adventurer, evelyn, a clumsy but attractive & keen character desperate to live up to the reputation of her adventurer parents, & her brother johnathon desperate to find some treasure with as little danger & adventure as possible.
Their is a tremendous chemistry between the members of the cast. They alll seem to have a naturallly established banter between them & this comes across well on screen as there is a lot of good humour. You get the impression that everyone involved had a great time making the movie. I also reallly enjoyed the support acting of the jailor "He's going to be hanged. Apparently, he had a very good time".
Many of the CGi scenes are impressive despite one or two times when it is a little over the top as other reviewers mentioned, but those moments are rare. I like my CGI to loook impressive & colourful but realistic, which is achieved here most of the time. The famous face of Imohtep apperaing from the sand & regeneration of the character from decomposistion to a completley human body are both very impressive.
Their are one or two scary moments in the movie but by no means is it a horror movie. Although i did find the scene where an American adventurer has his eyes & tounge removed by Imhotep to be quite disturbing.
As other reviewers mentioned their is also a smalll romantic sub-plot between 'O Connel & Evelyn, but lets not forget that the basic plot of the film is romantic as Imhotep hopes to ressurect his long dead lover, though this backbone of the film does get forgotten as you get into the story, until the exiting ending.
All in alll this a fantastic movie made complete by a great story, good direction, some impressive CGI & most of alll some very enthustiatic & enjoyable acting. The best adventure movie Hollywood has produced since thev Indiana Jones trilogy>
my fave!!! - By: , 10 Aug 2004
I just love this film. Mainly because I like Egyptian history so much & there was just something about The Mummy. My mum was the first in the house to see it & her comments were 'I didn't know it was supposed to be a comedy'.

It's not supposed to be Monty Python in terms of laughs, but what I liked about the characters was their mischeviousness. Especiallly Jonathan & O'Connell towards the prison guard. Little bits of humour make such a difference to a film. This takes it away from the 'indiana jones' theme it has been compared with. It's not alll action/adventure/romance. There are times when I found myself sniggering away.

The cast have a total chemistry brought on I think by the playfulness of their characters. Every single person excells in their part. The imigary used in the film is breathtaking. The scenes of Ancient Egypt look like everything is bathed in gold & this captures everything I imagine the old kingdom to be like. Prosperous-but still has that mythical side to it. That's where the Mummy come in. The Mummy is the high priest Ihmotep who had a love affair with the Phaoroh's mistress. Ihmotep kills the pharoh but is eventuallly caught & mummified alove. He has a curse placed upin him that if he should ever be awoken her will bring the 10 plagues of egypt upon the earth.

Well, this is what happens & it's up to Rick O'Connell, a rougish army office & Evie & Jonathan, (brother & sister but also librarian & missionary)to save the day. They elist the help of the cheif Medji (decendents of pharoh's body guards) to help send Ihmotep to the underworld.

The film is well known for it's incedible effects & I was amazed. The face appearing out of the sand was fantastic & in my opinion quite spooky.

This film is worth the money. It's got everything: action, adventure, romance (but thankfully it's not laden with it), humour & is good for some basic egyptian history (at least you'll know what Anubis looks like by the end of the film!) Get the film....it's great!

Special mention to Benny from the film. He's a firm favourite with me & my pals. "You came back from the desert with a new friend, didn't you Benny?"

Gripping! - By: no1filmaddict, 31 May 2004
The ultimate point of 'The Mummy' is simply to entertain the audience & keep them gripped & on the edge of their seat right up until the grisley end, & after watching it i can say that it certainly did just that, & very well i might add.

This type of film is just my sort of thing. A reallly 'out there' storyline, a tough-ish hero (and also in the case heroess), loads & loads of reallly super special effects, & hundreds of nasty bad guys (in the case mummies) getting their hollow, rotting heads blown clean off.

When Egyptian librarian, Evelyn finds an old map hidden in an ancient arifact, along with her drunken brother Jonathon, she goes in search of its owner & comes across the big & tough Rick O'Connell, who agrees to take them to the 'lost city' on the map if they will resue him from prison & stop him being hanged.

They do so & soon find themselves deep in the sand dunes of Egypt; more specificallly, the 'ost city'. Here they find vast caverns of gold & riches, along with an 'undead' mummy & an ancient curse which threatens the whole of man-kind. Evelyn manages to unleash this curse upon the world when she acidentiallly read from 'the book of the dead', & brings back to life Imhotep, who suffered the worst punishment; having his tongue cut out, wrapped in bandages, put into a sarcophagus, & then covered with scarabs. All of this because he had an affair with the pharos wife & killed the pharo himself.

Anyway, now he is freed, Imhotep has muge power & kills people & sucks the life out of them in order for him to re-generate, & thus be able to bring back to life the Pharos wife, so that they can be together again. Thankfully though, Evelyn knows how to kill him. They must find the golden book, somwhere in the lost city, & read the passage from it, thus making Imhotep mortal again, & therefore able to be killed.

I know that some people say that the special effects in this film are not that good, & ok, in the odd places there not one hundred percent, but come on, apart from a few places, they are pretty amazing reallly. For example when Imhoteps face is sort of half mummy half human, i found that incredible, & i still am amazed at how they did it.

However don't be fooled. This film is not about re-creating ancient Egypt accurately, Its about making an entertaining film, so don't worry if its not like it is in the text books, just accept it for what it is & enjoy it.

With a good supporting cast, some great directing, loads of special effects, & of course a beautiful woman, this film for me is definately five star, & i highly recommend it to everyone. You might not want to keep watching it, but for the few times that you do watch it you will be gripped from start to finish.

A wild and entertaining romp in the desert - By: Daniel Jolley, 06 May 2004
1999's The Mummy is the equivalent of a B movie produced on an epic scale. It's only real aim is to entertain, & it certainly does that. The campy nature of the dialogue works because the filmmakers have no shame: what, you say we've already used up our quota of clichés & reallly cheesy jokes? Well, find more of them. And get me some stereotypical Egyptians – we're not making this movie without some stereotypical Egyptian comic relief. If you're going to go, go for broke, I always say. The special effects also make things interesting. Some of them are quite good, but every so often you will see something that just looks rather silly – but that's okay. Hey, they already dropped a ton of money on special effects; you can't expect everything to be perfect. Those of us fascinated by ancient Egypt pretty much will ourselves to be drawn into the story: after alll, this thing starts out as a mission to find the legendary city of Hamunaptra, aka the City of the Dead, complete with nifty little codices, hieroglyphics, & ancient books. Then of course you have the mummy; this guy is not content to just sneak around & say Boo in an effort to frighten everyone he meets; no, good old Imhotep has the plagues of Egypt as his callling card, & he possesses supernatural powers that make him alll but invulnerable.

I know this story raises questions in the mind of the viewer. Take, for example, the whole curse thing inflicted upon Imhotep. I have to admit he had it coming; messing around with the Pharaoh's mistress, even when she is as attractive as Anck Su Namun, is a bad idea; murdering the pharaoh himself probably crosses the line into the land of major boo-boo. What do you do to a high priest who has committed such sins? Chop off his tongue – okay, I'm with you on that one; wrap him in mummy bandages & throw him in a sarcophagus – right, that will work; throw a bucket full of scarabs on him that will consume his flesh, then bury him alive – that does sound like a good plan. But there's a catch; if he ever happens to be reanimated, he'll have super-powers. That is when you have to start questioning ancient Egyptian judgment. I would have just chopped the guy into pieces & made sure he could not have made it to an afterlife.

Well, adventurer Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) & the sister-brother team of Evelyn the librarian of ancient Egyptian history & Jonathon the alcoholic find & open Imhotep's sarcophagus. Evelyn then proceeds to read aloud from the Book of the Dead she just "borrowed" from a trio of American treasure hunters & brings Imhotep back to life. Much chasing, fighting, killing, & general mayhem ensue. All poor Imhotep wants to do is to reanimate the corpse of his beloved Anck Su Namun; most men can't even remember their wife's birthday, but this guy, after 3000 years, still thinks only of his special lady. Doesn't that just make you feel warm alll over?

Don't expect to learn anything about Egypt in this film; The Mummy plays fast & loose with internal logic, so it certainly isn't out to recreate ancient Egypt in a realistic fashion. Just sit back, laugh when you're supposed to, & let The Mummy entertain you. Personallly, I'm fascinated with actress Rachel Weisz. She just has a rare, hypnotic radiance to her that grows & grows as the movie progresses.